Katie Koester

I’m Katie Koester, a Certified EOS Implementer® in Lincoln, Nebraska. I coach leadership teams and specialize in trades and field-service companies. Before that, I spent 13 years in IT and operations at a family-owned construction company.

I came in on the IT side, but I quickly realized my real passion was running the business.

When I took over the IT division, it was losing money and morale. I went looking for tools that actually worked and found EOS, the Entrepreneurial Operating System. I started putting the tools to work in my own department.

Eighteen months later, we’d gone from losses to 5% net profit.

The results were undeniable, so we hired an EOS Implementer to roll it out across the entire company. I stepped into the VP of Operations role, what EOS calls the Integrator, the person who runs day-to-day operations and keeps the leadership team pulling in the same direction. Over the next four years, we grew $30 million, an 80% increase, while building a culture people actually wanted to work in.

What stuck with me was what it felt like to finally have clarity. Business can be consuming in the worst way, and I was one of those people who let it be. EOS gave me a real structure for running the business instead of the business running me. That’s what I want for every leader I work with.

Today I work with owners and leadership teams at companies of 10 to 250+ people who have outgrown how they run things. That usually looks like:

• Owners stuck in the day-to-day
• Teams avoiding hard conversations
• The same problems coming back every quarter

I don’t consult or give advice. I coach your team to solve its own issues, and I hold you accountable for doing what you said you’d do, every single session. If that sounds like your team, let’s talk.

When I’m not in the session room, I’m usually at a baseball field cheering on my kids.